Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: Add support for per xfer specific privatedata & box dma

[Ravi Kumar V <kumarrav@codeaurora.org>]

On 1/17/2012 7:23 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 18:17 +0530, Ravi Kumar V wrote:
>>
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/scatterlist.h b/include/asm-generic/scatterlist.h
>> index 5de0735..e66dfcb 100644
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/scatterlist.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/scatterlist.h
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct scatterlist {
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
>>   	unsigned int	dma_length;
>>   #endif
>> +	unsigned long	private_data;
> what do you plan to pass here. Please keep in mind this is a generic
> scatterlist structure, and modifying it for your purposes doesn't seem
> to be a great one!
> Also why can't you pass this as addition argument in your new "BOX API"?
We are using DMA-Engine framework for both SG mode and BOX mode of our HW.
For SG mode we are using device_prep_dma_sg API but the problem we are 
facing is we need to pass command configuration parameter along with 
each descriptor to our HW, we did not find any suitable API/structure in 
framework to support this.
So thought of adding new element in struct scatterlist.
please can you suggest a way to pass private parameter with
every descriptor.
>
>>   };
>>
>>   /*
>> +
>> +struct dma_box_list {
>> +	dma_addr_t dma_row_address;
>> +	unsigned int dma_row_len;
>> +	unsigned int dma_row_num;
>> +	unsigned int dma_row_offset;
>> +	unsigned long private_data;
>> +};
> again a private data here?
> is this some kind of interleaved pattern?
Yes this interleaved pattern.
>> +
>>   /**
>>    * struct dma_device - info on the entity supplying DMA services
>>    * @chancnt: how many DMA channels are supported
>> @@ -497,6 +507,11 @@ struct dma_device {
>>   	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_dma_cyclic)(
>>   		struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len,
>>   		size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction);
>> +	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_dma_box)(
>> +		struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_box_list *dst_box,
>> +		struct dma_box_list *src_box, unsigned int num_list,
>> +		unsigned long flags);
> still not clean what kind of transfer do you want to do here
We are doing interleaved pattern of data transfer between source and 
destination boxs, num_list is number of box mode commands
Please can you refer patch 0/2 I have replied explaining about box mode 
transfer clearly.
>> +
>>   	int (*device_control)(struct dma_chan *chan, enum dma_ctrl_cmd cmd,
>>   		unsigned long arg);
>>
>
>


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